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Did the SR-91 Aurora Replace the SR-71? Separating Myth from Reality

The SR-91 Aurora, a reported successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy aircraft, is conjecture with little proof of its existence. Though there was a rumor based on a budget code name and one supposed ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN

Did the U.S. Build the SR-91 Aurora as the SR-71’s Hidden Successor?

The SR-91 Aurora, purported replacement for the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, is a rumor with scant evidence for its existence. While there was a suggestion from a budget code name and one reported ...
The National Interest

SR-91 Aurora: The U.S. Military’s Mach 5 Spy Plane (That Isn’t Real?)

Summary: Ben Rich, former head of Lockheed Martin’s Skunkworks, suggested in 1993 that advanced technologies for interstellar travel exist but are confined to secretive black projects. This claim ...
Yahoo

China creates new Ram-Rotor Detonation Engine to boost hypersonic flight

Researchers in China have introduced a new hypersonic engine concept by integrating a ramjet with a rotary detonation engine. A team at Tsinghua University in Beijing created a new design known as the ...
Ars Technica

For the first time in the US, a rotating detonation rocket engine takes flight

A US-based propulsion company, Venus Aerospace, said Wednesday it had completed a short flight test of its rotating detonation rocket engine at Spaceport America in New Mexico. The company's chief ...